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The complete technical program for SuperPile ’16 is available online at www.dfi-superpile.org. The conference, hosted by DFI in partnership with ADSC, is being held on June 7-9, 2016, at the Westin Michigan Avenue Chicago. Pre-conference activities on Tuesday, June 7, include DFI Technical Committee and Working Group meetings, a complimentary tour of the Atlas Pipe […]

David K. Crapps, Ph.D., P.E., principal for GPE, Inc. and David K. Crapps, Inc., both of Gainesville, Fla., is presenting the DFI 2016 Osterberg Memorial Lecturer at DFI’s SuperPile ’16 conference being held June 7-9 at the Westin Michigan Avenue Chicago. The lecture is titled, “Lessons Learned from Dr. Jorj O. Osterberg and His Inventions.” […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) and the European Federation of Foundation Contractors (EFFC) have released a free download of the recently published Best Practice Guide to Tremie Concrete for Deep Foundations. The guide is the result of the initial study efforts of the joint DFI and EFFC Concrete Task Group, which was established in 2014 […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) is hosting the International Conference on Deep Foundations, Seepage Control and Remediation — DFI’s 41st Annual Conference, October 12-15, 2016, at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City. The conference introduces a new technical track featuring seepage control and remediation for dam and levee projects worldwide, in addition […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces that new officers have been elected for the DFI Middle East Regional Chapter. Chair Emad Sharif is the Dubai and Muscat manager for ACES – Arab Center for Engineering Studies in Dubai, UAE. He joined ACES in 1994 as general manager of the ACES Palestine Branch and transferred to Dubai […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces that 2 of its 18 Technical Committees have new committee chairs starting in 2016. Morgan NeSmith, P.E., of Berkel & Company Contractors, is the incoming chair of the Augered Cast-in-Place Pile Committee, following Mike Moran of Cajun Deep Foundations. NeSmith is a long-standing member of the committee and the chief […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces the availability of the most recent edition of the DFI Journal, a peer-reviewed publication of high-quality papers. Volume 9, Issue 2, includes the following papers: “Response of a drilled shaft foundation constructed in a redrilled shaft excavation following collapse” “Discussion of ‘Interpretation of augered cast in place pile capacity […]

The 10th Annual DFI Educational Trust Gala Fundraising Dinner in November at The Chart House in Weehawken, N.J., raised $40,000 in net proceeds to support the Stanley Merjan Civil Engineering Scholarship at City College of New York (CCNY), the Women in Deep Foundations Fund and the DFI Educational Trust General Fund. During the event, Stanley […]

Kevin Johnson, E.I.T., a Ph.D. candidate at the University of South Florida, in the department of civil and environmental engineering, is the winner of the DFI Educational Trust 2015 Student Paper Competition. Johnson’s paper, “Analysis of Thermal Integrity Profiling Data for Drilled Shaft Evaluation,” discusses the most recent nondestructive test method to gain widespread popularity […]

Aaron S. Bradshaw, Ph.D., P.E., from University of Rhode Island, is the winner of this year’s DFI Educational Trust Young Professor Paper Competition for his paper, “Pile Load Transfer from Static Loading Test Inversions.” Bradshaw’s paper presents an inversion approach to estimate the distribution of load at depth in a deep foundation from the load-movement […]